SB 5599 - Infringing on parental rights and legalizing forced sterilization through 'trans' activism targeting our children
why are youth being referred to, and allowed to receive life-altering, irreversible 'services'?
Whether you feel this bill is a threat to parental rights, a power grab by tyrannical bureaucrats, or an attempt to legally legitimize an agenda to control, and ultimately harm your kids, SB 5599 is a bill that needs to die like yesterday.
There’s no reason why our youth, homeless or not, should be receiving ‘protected health services’ like gender-affirming care. Period. End of story. And there’s no reason why the State should interfere with the rights of a parent, especially when there’s care being given that has long-lasting, permanent effects involving their child.
Gender affirming care, if given to someone below the age of 18, without full understanding and knowledge of the choice they’re making, can have long-lasting and irreversible effects (like infertility, a lifetime of regret, and emotional damage that can lead to suicide), especially if care is given to a child that doesn’t need it.
(this bill also allows for a child under the age of 18 to have ‘reproductive health care’, which is abortion. What is disgusting, is that the legal age for owning a firearm was raised to 21 (from 18), but minors are being trusted to consent to permanent, irreversible surgeries, which can inevitably lead to sterilization…an inability to reproduce).
As someone who was subject to ‘sex-norming surgery’ as an intersexed infant (and de-transitioned as a teen), I absolutely disagree with this bill.
Be warned, because this will be one of the longest newsletters I’ve posted so far. Bear with me, dear patriots.
SB 5599 - the definitions
SB 5599, on initial read, seems to detail guidelines and definitions for the kind of care youth are able to receive, as well as the notifications that need to happen, should a youth become homeless (or 'run away from home'). The bill dictates that a youth's parent(s) or guardian must be contacted within 72 hours, if they end up in a care facility, or any facility that houses youth (like a homeless shelter, or a shelter for youth).
But…
…this bill seems to focus solely on ‘transgender youth’, and ONLY transgender youth.
Gender-affirming care, defined
RCW 74.9.675 defines
Gender affirming care services—Prohibited discrimination.
(1) In the provision of gender affirming care services through programs under this chapter, the authority, managed care plans, and providers that administer or deliver such services may not discriminate in the delivery of a service provided through a program of the authority based on the covered person's gender identity or expression.
(2) Beginning January 1, 2022:
(a) The authority and any managed care plans delivering or administering services purchased or contracted for by the authority may not apply categorical cosmetic or blanket exclusions to gender affirming treatment.
(b) Facial feminization surgeries and facial gender affirming treatment, such as tracheal shaves, hair electrolysis, and other care such as mastectomies, breast reductions, breast implants, or any combination of gender affirming procedures, including revisions to prior treatment, when prescribed as gender affirming treatment, may not be excluded as cosmetic.
(c) The authority and managed care plans administering services purchased or contracted for by the authority may not issue an adverse benefit determination denying or limiting access to gender affirming treatment, unless a health care provider with experience prescribing or delivering gender affirming treatment has reviewed and confirmed the appropriateness of the adverse benefit determination.
(d) If the authority and managed care plans administering services purchased or contracted for by the authority do not have an adequate network for gender affirming treatment, they shall ensure the delivery of timely and geographically accessible medically necessary gender affirming treatment at no greater expense than if they had an in-network, geographically accessible provider available. This includes, but is not limited to, providing case management services to secure out-of-network gender affirming treatment options that are available to the enrollee in a timely manner within their geographic region. The enrollee shall pay no more than the same cost sharing that the enrollee would pay for the same covered services received from an in-network provider.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "gender affirming treatment" means a service or product that a health care provider, as defined in RCW 70.02.010, prescribes to an individual to support and affirm the individual's gender identity. Gender affirming treatment includes, but is not limited to, treatment for gender dysphoria. Gender affirming treatment can be prescribed to two spirit, transgender, nonbinary, and other gender diverse individuals.
(4) Nothing in this section may be construed to mandate coverage of a service that is not medically necessary.
(5) The authority shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section.
The question people should be asking is:
WHY IS THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ALLOWING MINORS TO RECEIVE ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’? CARE THAT HAS LONG-LASTING and IRREVERSIBLE EFFECTS?!?!?
Allowing a child to receive such services, when there is no minimal age of discretion is morally wrong, and flat-out criminal.
There are no ‘standards of care’, to ensure that if a child below the age of 18, is 100% aware of the long-lasting effects of such ‘gender-affirming care’. In most cases, there’s a lifetime of emotional, mental, as well as physical problems. De-transitioning is a real thing. This bill doesn’t cover the accountability of those ‘offering’ or ‘giving’ gender-affirming care to these children, especially if they’re mentally vulnerable. Gender-affirming care doesn’t JUST include the medical doctors, but the mental health professions who ‘diagnose’, and treat/refer patients for gender-affirming care.
And the infringement of parental rights by the State
(c) "Compelling reasons" include, but are not limited to:
(i) Circumstances that indicate that notifying the parent or legal guardian will subject the minor to abuse or neglect as defined in RCW 26.44.020;
or (ii) When a minor is seeking or receiving protected health care services. (d) "Protected health care services" means gender affirming treatment as defined in RCW 74.09.675 and reproductive health care services as defined in RCW 74.09.875.
This is the dangerous part of the bill. A parent deciding they don’t want their child to receive any kind of ‘gender affirming care’, could potentially be deemed ‘abusive’ or ‘neglectful’. This has the potential to have children be given ‘gender affirming care’, without parental consent (‘reproductive health services’, aka abortions is another). This is very troubling. If you have a child that’s run away from home, and suddenly is groomed/coaxed into receiving ‘gender-affirming’ care without parental consent. Of course, what happens if you have a child enrolled in school, and ‘suddenly’ they are diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and are groomed/coerced to receive ‘gender-affirming care’? What action would the school take if the parent decides not to ‘go along’ with the recommendation for ‘gender-affirming care? This could be viewed a violation of the 4th Amendment, as well.
Gender Identity Disorder becomes Gender Dysphoria…
Before 2006-2008, there was no such thing as a child undergoing care for ‘gender dysphoria’. Around the 2010s, this change. In fact, pre-2008, there were standards of care used as a means to rule out any pre-existing conditions (like schizophrenia, psychosis, and any other mental health problems), for children and adults, alike.
The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) was the go-to agency for protocols and guidelines for ensuring that anyone diagnosed with ‘gender dysphoria’ (formerly known as ‘gender identity disorder’), has any other mental issues ruled out, before a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Most cases would have the individual live as their preferred gender (a ‘real life trial’) for a year, before getting a referral to have sex reassignment surgery).
This changed around 2006 when Dr. John Money, (a rather reprobate individual, who was the originator of the ‘gender identity and sex-norming surgeries, especially on intersex infants whose genitalia aren’t clearly male or female) died, and HBIGDA became the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. This, along with the infiltration (and subsequent destruction) of the intersex movement (a movement that was focused on banning sex-norming surgeries on intersexed infants), gave way to the rise of the ‘transgender movement’, which happened to be funded by rich billionaires and foundations like the ‘Tawani Foundation’. The ‘transgender movement became more about activism, and nowadays, it includes targeting our children.
There was also a change in the way people with gender dysphoria, was diagnosed, including changing the term from ‘gender identity disorder’ to ‘gender dysphoria’. (This was one of the many controversial changes made to the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’, or DSM-V, from the DSM-IV. The DSM is a book used by the American Psychological Association to diagnose and treat mental disorders. The controversy surrounding the DSM is one whole newsletter, in and of itself).
Corruption of ‘trusted’ institutions
The major issue is not only do you have the American Academy of Pediatrics actively supporting the foisting of the ‘transgender agenda’ onto our children, but you also have the American Medical Association (another, evil organization, in and of itself) licensing the doctors to perform these kinds of irreversible surgeries (but since they’ve been mandating ‘sex-norming surgeries’ on intersexed toddlers for decades, this should surprise no one). There’s no ‘standards of care’ that are being followed, for diagnosing, and treating ‘gender dysphoria in children and adolescents.
In order to combat this problem, homeschool your children. If you’re not able to, get more involved in your child’s education. Find out who’s grooming/influencing your child to believe they have ‘gender dysphoria’. Find out what information they’re using, document every diagnosis, and any person meeting with your child that discusses ‘gender dysphoria’, and take decisive action.
Exploration of gender for a child of either sex is healthy and normal, before puberty sets in. Forcing them, grooming them into having permanent, irreversible surgeries is not.
Let kids be kids…and please vote against this evil bill.
Thank you for this analysis, and for your viewpoint from personal experience.
I just spent about 3 hours researching ESSB 5599 and formulating a comment, which I sent to the House Human Services, Youth and Early Learning Committee prior to their hearing tomorrow, to request a "no" vote on this bill.
Essentially, ESSB 5599 would eliminate due process for the severing of parental rights in cases where minors are "seeking or receiving gender-affirming care" or "reproductive services" i.e., abortion-- without any investigation or court proceeding.
Shelters and other such facilities would be exempt from the requirement to notify parents of their minor child's whereabouts in such cases, which translates into the instant severing of parental rights, without due process.
ESSB 5599 is silent about what happens to the minor after s/he indicates they are seeking such services, and only exempts a shelter or similar organization from notifying the parents of the location of their child. There is no direction given to shelter personnel about psychological testing, or counselling, or advising of possible bad outcomes, so presumably the minor would be hustled along the path of abortion or "gender-affirming" hormone treatment and/or surgery. And since parental rights would have been severed, who would pay for these surgeries? Presumably the Washington taxpayer would be left holding the bag.
It seems likely that if enacted, this bill would lead to many lawsuits by parents angry that their rights have been severed without due process, and eventually, by minors--now adults--angry about irreversible procedures they were rushed into without understanding the full effects.
As mentioned by j.sparks, please contact your legislators and the members of the House Human Services Committee, and urge them to vote NO on ESSB 5599.